The deed will be accomplished with the least amount of bloodshed possible, and, if possible ..., we'll save all the souls and send them happily off to their abode.

One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.

A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.

Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.